ThePC - The Policing Conversation

Professor Layla Skinns is a Senior Lecturer in criminology in the Centre for Criminological Research at the School of Law, University of Sheffield. Professor Skinns research has been police detention, in England and Wales, but also in other parts of the Anglophone world. We discuss the conditions of police custody as well as police powers and the issues with them.

Ukasha is currently a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State. He teaches courses related to community policing, conflict resolution and management, police-public relations, criminal investigation. Ukasha is a former law enforcement official who has over 12 years working experience in Crime prevention and control in Nigeria. Ukasha is now concentrating on research within policing and has produced papers around Cyber Policing in Nigeria.

Professor Daniel Byman is a leading researcher on a range of topics related to terrorism, insurgency, intelligence and the Middle East. He is the author of Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad, Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs Know, and A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism. This episode we cover a range of topics from the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan and Foreign Policy within the Middle East.

In this first episode of series 3, we sat down with Daniel Koehler who the founding Director of the German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studies (GIRDS). Daniel advises the Ministry of the Interior in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on guiding the state-wide CVE activities. Daniel has long practical experience in deradicalization counselling and program design and has published his first two monographs: Understanding Deradicalization: Methods, Tools and Programs for Countering Violent Extremism (2017) and Right-Wing Terrorism in the 21st Century: The 'National Socialist Underground' and the History of Terror from the Far-Right in Germany (2017). A really intriguing episode about the threats of terror within Germany.

In this episode, I sat down with Professor Adam Crawford who is a Professor of Policing and Social Justice at the University of York and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Leeds. In 2013, he established and was the inaugural Director of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP, 2013-20); a collaboration between eight universities and policing partners across the north of England. Alongside the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre, Adam is currently working on a European Commission Horizon 2020 project IcARUS: ‘Innovative Approaches to Urban Security’ (2020-24). In this project he led the research and production of the State of the Art Review and Roadmap that will inform the co-design and implementation of innovative approaches to urban security in the six partner cities.

In this episode, I sat down with Professor Gus Martin who is a Professor of Criminal Justice Administration in the Department of Public Administration at California State University. Professor Martin’s research and professional specialisms are terrorism and extremism, homeland security, and administration of justice. We discussed the War on Terror and the current threat of domestic terrorism within the United States.

In this episode, I sat down with Lucia Dammert who is a Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Born in Peru, her research interests lie in the field of public security, criminal organizations and criminal justice reform. Her expertise has been widely acknowledged in Latin America. We discussed her most recent books are Fear of Crime in Latin America (2012) and Maras (2011) She has held key advisory positions in Chile, Argentina, México and Perú and has served as key advisor at the Organisation of American States and other regional organizations.

In this episode, I sat down with Dr Tracey Green is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA), commencing in November 2021. Tracey has 22 years police experience as a sworn officer in the UK and her areas of expertise include serious and serial criminal investigation, in particular homicide, drug and police corruption. As a strong advocate of policing and police education, Tracey has a proven commitment to domestic and international collaboration with police and law enforcement agencies, ensuring education and research are operationally relevant and aligned to policing needs. She joins ANZPAA from Charles Sturt University where she was the Executive Dean, Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences.